Dubai: Desert Hedge Fund Masquerading as Metropolis—A Global Report
Dubai—population 3.4 million, 92 percent imported—has never quite decided whether it is a city, a brand, or a fever dream induced by too much air-conditioning and not enough irony. From a distance it looks like a hedge-fund PowerPoint got drunk on 3-D rendering software and decided to build itself. Up close it feels like the…